> 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker
It depends on the weight of what you carry with you.
It depends on the weight of what you carry with you.
"He did bring a giant backpack, which his fellow hikers considered far too heavy for his journey."
This was without any real special training.
> He wasn’t an experienced hiker (wore jeans the first couple weeks, didn’t carry maps/gps/phone, had a tent that was too big, carried a backpack that was over 50 lbs)
Also in the pictures without jeans he was wearing knee support, he might have just had arthritis or something like that.
One of the biggest reasons for quitting mental illness drugs is due to the feeling that everything is "OK", and they don't need them anymore.
This almost universally false, and as the drugs leave their system, things get progressivelly worse over time. The story fits this timeline really well.